Creators from Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperCollins Publishers,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The anatomy of creative courage
- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street
- Dürer : a strong smell of printer's ink
- Shakespeare : glimpses of an unknown colossus
- J. S. Bach : the genetics of the organ loft
- Turner and Hokusai : apocalypse now and then
- Jane Austen : shall we join the ladies?
- A. W. N. Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc : Goths for all seasons
- Victor Hugo : the genius without a brain
- Mark Twain : how to tell a joke
- Tiffany : through a glass darkly
- T. S. Eliot : the last poet to wear spats
- Balenciaga and Dior : the aesthetics of a buttonhole
- Picasso and Walt Disney : room for nature in a modern world?
- Metaphors in a laboratory.
